A complaint was filed with the ECHR against the sentence of Andrey Bubeev

The international human rights group "Agora", representing the interests of Andrey Bubeev, indicates that his right to express his own opinion was violated.

24 January 2016 International Human Rights group "Agora" representing interests of Andrey Bubeev, appealed to European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with a complaint against verdict the him under Part 2 of Art. 280.1 (public calls for violation of territorial integrity RF) and Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities).

Sentence Bubeev was taken out by Zavolzhsky regional court Tver May 5, 2016, he received two years of imprisonment in a colony-settlement. case against he was initiated in September 2015 for repost in the social network "VKontakte" articles publicist Boris Stomakhin about Crimea and drawing in which the hand extrudes tube of toothpaste labeled "Squeeze from myself Russia" with accompanying an inscription that the only form protest should be " active destruction" of Russia with clarification as what the Chechens did in their time, for example" . (See here for more details ). The materials published by Bubeev did contain aggressive appeals, however, in the part related to Art. 280.1, with from our point of view, he was wrongfully convicted because the We we believe that citizens have the right to openly express your opinion on joining to Russia's new territory.

Agora Lawyer Damir Gainutdinov, commenting on the filing of a complaint with the ECHR, explained to Kommersant that the criminal persecution and long-term imprisonment freedom violated right Bubeeva to freely express one's opinion, provided for by the Basic Law of the Russian Federation and international law. IN claim filed with the ECtHR, the applicant indicates that "published their materials dealt with issues representing undoubted public interest. They were based on criticism foreign policy of the Russian Federation with respect to an independent state Ukraine, which is quite acceptable for citizens" . When neither the court, neither the FSB nor the prosecutor's office brought not a single argument in favor of "urgent social needs" restrictions Bubeev's right to express an opinion on public matter, in court it was not discussed how these reposts threaten public order and national security of the Russian Federation and whom they could induce extremist actions. Gainutdinov also drew attention to the fact that the investigation did not provide information to the court about the degree of publicity of Bubeev's records, and the materials published by him Not were recognized extremist and still free spread on social networks.

Sources

• Alexander Chernykh. The ECtHR sent a link to the repost // Kommersant. 2017. January 24.